Washing-machine



` Ten srmwnur cerros G. HOLLINGSWORTH, OF LIBERTY, INDIANA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 8,921, dated May 4, 1852.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER HOL- LINGswoR'rH, of Liberty, in thecountyof Union and State of Indiana, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Vashing- Machines; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference beinghad to the 'annexed drawing, making part of this specication.

The feature .of novelty of my invention consists in the employment ofballs of wood or other .substance of sufficient hardness and buoyancy,which floating in the Water in Contact with the linen, the latterY beingworked up and down between and among the balls, is subjected to aconstantly varying and yielding rubbing pressure.

In the annexed drawing, which represents by a vertical section, amachine embodying y my improvements (c) is a rectangular box Theoperation of the machine is as follows: the clothes or other articlesVto be washed having been secured in the frame in the manner abovedescribed, and the boX being supplied with hot water, Sac., as usual,the balls will Hoa-t at or near the top of the liquid, and the clothesbeing pressed down between and among the balls, a rolling and yielding,but very evenly pressing and rubbing surface, is brought to bear on theclothes, and the process is repeatedwhenthe frame being lifted-theclothes are drawn upward through the balls.

Having thus described the nature of my invention, what I claim thereinas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The application substantially as described to the process of washing ofballs of wood or other buoyant material in connection with areciprocating frame, or equivalent device, by means of which a rolling,yield-A ing and evenly pressing surface, is presented to the clothes orother articles to be washed. l

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand before two subscribingwitnesses.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLINGSWORTH.

Witnesses:

Guo. H.. KNIGHT, y EDWARD H. KNIGHT.

